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Good point @chickenbig ! You need to be very careful what a supplier means by "including tax". Indeed sometimes this phrase assumes that you've sele...
Great... so we're now in a separate topic. And I have a couple of questions to fire back at @hamish-mcmichael 1: Do you have a rough idea of how man...
That need not be viewed as wasted effort @majordennisbloodnok If you've already got a good grasp on energy statistics for an individual household, w...
@hamish-mcmichael the entire market for heat-pump installations is rather like the early days of double-glazing. The main difference this time is that...
Only your Energy Supplier, Octopus, have the access rights to send the required commands and data. I'd suggest that you email them with a link to th...
Yes. Simon and I did some exploratory investigations on this on the OVO Forum last year, although much of that is held in a private area called the Te...
Hi @hamish-mcmichael and welcome to the forum. Your intro/CV is interesting... but not necessarily for the reason you were thinking of! This Forum...
Good point. Anyone else reading here, please do the same and intervene if I use a term which I don't explain. In this case I'd like to offer a new d...
Well I'm glad to see some adventurous thinking @mjr Let's keep the discussion going and see where this leads. Firstly there are only five ALCS cha...
Solutions are available @editor - ones which could be targeted at the most needy far better than the '£250 to everyone' which the government has just ...
It is a fine detail... but alas, you've jumped to the wrong conclusion. 😟 The internal offset timing within our Smart Meter Comms Hubs is precisely...
If you'd like to know more, then there's a rich repository of published material in Ofgem's archives, such as this Presentation by Tim Bailey. He was ...
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